190 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



gives in, or until we are forced to employ stronger 

 means. Mr. John Hubert Moore, who taught me 

 this admirable method for curing this and other 

 forms of jibbing, considers that its great efficacy 

 is due to the punishment inflicted on the animal's 

 mouth and hocks. Professor Sample, however, holds 

 that it is owing to the fact of the animal imagining 

 that he has no power to resist the command to go 

 forward, after having been forced to turn as the 

 breaker wished. I may observe that it is not 

 the act of turning a jibber to the right and to 

 the left which will overcome his sulkiness, but 

 its continued repetition ; and that the sharper this 

 is done the better will be the effect. Hence, I 

 am inclined to think that the punishment theory 

 is the right one. The horse seems, as with the 

 rope-twitch (see page in), to fail to connect the 

 idea of pain, in this case, with the man who 

 inflicts it, as he undoubtedly does, when whipped, 

 or spurred ; and, probably, on that account, yields 

 the more readily to its influence. 



